Pro Nail Tech Training

 You apply a beautiful let of nail enhancements and when your client comes back in 2 weeks you see lifting!  What went wrong? from htt...

We have discussed the chemistry of hard gel nails  and how gel nails interact with UV/LED lamps . In this post I am going to compare soak of...

One of the most common problems a nail tech sees during a fill service is separation of the natural nail from the enhancement at the nail ti...

There are two types of "lines" that you can see after filling an anhancement. One is a line where there was lifted product that w...

TIP OF THE WEEK #10 SMILE LINES By Vicki Peters DISCLAIMER Any products mentioned in the "Tip Of The Week by Vicki Peters" ...

In my post on proper PREP  I noted that in prepping the nail, your goal is to get rid of the natural oils that coat the nail NOT to etch or ...

More golden advice from Vicki Peters circa 2001    TIP OF THE WEEK #7:  ACRYLIC REMOVAL By Vicki Peters      This week's ti...

Yellowing is the discoloration and breakdown of artificial nail coatings by ultraviolet light, excessive heat, or chemical contaminants.  ...

We have discussed the procedure for  re-balancing nails  (fills) and that all well and good, but what if we have someone who has a Pink ...

Pocket lifting is a term used to describe when an enhancement gets a "bubble" in the middle of the nail plate but the area around ...

Now that we have learned why we rebalance a nail in part 1 of this article, lets talk about the actual process of rebalancing. (We will tal...

First and foremost, lets make something very clear. A drill is defined as "a hand tool, power tool, or machine with a rotating cutting ...